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Amazing piece!

It's always nice to see an orchestral%uFEFF piece, especially one as well done as this. ^.^

The movement at 1:46 is lovely, but I feel the samples dulled the full effect of the solo viola, and made the low end of the mix a bit muddy. The transition at 3:23 is awesome, and I loved the sliding strings throughout that movement. :) Loved the celesta @ 5:46, very nice touch to the end of that "cold" movement, but wished the french horns were an octave higher during the theme afterwards.

Overall, the orchestration was extremely well done, but the final mix was limited a bit by the samples used. You still get a 10/10 for producing amazing music though. ^.^

TheBellmaker responds:

Thanks for the review! I also saw it on the channel :P I guess I respond here then.

I don't know why, but I just really suck at mixing. I've been playing with EQ settings a bit to separate out the instruments, but I really do need work. Unforunately, Edirol doesn't allow me to separate different instruments to different mixer tracks :'(

Thanks for the review! I'm glad you liked it.

Beautiful.

Really, really lovely piece--can't wait to hear the live version. :)

Are you inspired by Nobuo Uematsu or Mitsuda Yasunori? Or japanese pop at all? The progressions in the first part really heavily reminded me of some of their work (and consequently, stuff I play, as I'm heavily influenced by both).

Only issue I have is there seems to be -a lot- of reverb at 2:14, could be scaled back a bit. But otherwise, excellent piece. 5/5 10/10

TheBenjerman responds:

Thanks! I would have responded sooner, but I seem to have missed this before now!

I've certainly heard and enjoyed both composer's works, but really only in passing. I do look up to a number of the composers at Square Enix though, and I am influenced by classical Japanese music in general.

And I can understand how you would get the idea from the chord progressions. A lot of popular Japanese composers are very into added-note-chords and mixed-modes.

And yeah, there is a lot of reverb at 2:14, could be excessive, but I kinda like how the main accompaniment comes out of the ambience of the previous section.

Thanks for the review! I'm going to have to check out Square Enix again. ^_^

Excellent piece!

Nice stuff. Reminds me of a conversation between the hero and the girl after some big action moment, and they're preparing to make a big move against the bad guy. I love how silky your strings are--are they East/West?

I know dynamics is an excellent thing to preserve for a film score, but for NewGrounds purposes, I would've hard limited the piece a bit to bring the overall volume up a tad--for many people it will just come across as quiet.

Overall, an excellent piece. I would consider moving it to the Classical portal though--you may get more views from others who do similar music. :)

5/5 10/10

TheBenjerman responds:

Thanks a whole lot!

You are correct about the strings! EWQLSO Gold.
Good call about the dynamics. I was still in "movie mode" when I submitted this. :\
And it has been officially moved to classical!

I really appreciate the feedback! I'll have to review some of your stuffs.

Back to business!

That hard saw is fucking awesome. lol When it pops in at 0:15 I was hit with instant awesomeness. ;p I also really like the melodic thing that pops into the background around 0:46, very progressive. (Although, I'm not a big techno/house/whatever guy, so I don't know what you guys call that. ;p )

Overall, excellent work.

5/5 "Back to business." 10/10

djInTheDark responds:

Well its hard to be progressive in a loop, so I guess thats a good thing. ;) The saw is very specialized, I didn't want some run of the mill sound for it, I wanted something at least a little new. For the melodic-ness, it really just needed a back beat for it to continue the overall structure without removing the saw to get from one place to another.

Thanx for the review!

Excellent loop!

Nice stuff. Sounds like something that would go behind a power point presentation for a product demonstration or company training video. . o O ( Was that an insult? Not intended, I assure you! ) Basically, excellent loop. :)

GEODeligeez responds:

Thanks man appreciate your comment, just made this out of nowhere, saw your tracks pretty good stuff, I can imagine in a serious environment a power point presentation and all of a sudden this track pops up lol!

Thanks!

Excellent!

You're lucky to have East/West samples! :) I would experiment with overlapping the transitions in your string chords as right now they sound synthesized because of the "breathing" effect (if you know what I'm talking about). Otherwise, no complaints--really nice piece! :)
5/5 9/10

kelwynshade responds:

Yeah, getting into VoP and properly transitioning the strings is something that will take some work for sure. The library is so large i'm just spending so much time finding instruments.

This stuff is so pro it's not even funny. It's definitely nice to have a legit copy to play with. ANyway, thanks for listening!

Slow, expressive, excellent.

Very nice, emotional piece. The only qualm I have is the cymbal at 1:34 starts suddenly and sounds more like a "trance" cymbal than an orchestral one. Overall, an excellent slow, expressive piece. I'm really glad there's people on NewGrounds making stuff like this. :)
5/5 9/10

Xyirx responds:

Yes, I sort of notice that cymbal too. Maybe I'll do a quick fix about it. Thank you so, so much for your review. It really means a lot to me.

Nice stuff.

I like it. The intro is unique, fairly short and sweet. The build is good, and I love the pipe lead. Parts of this remind me of old videogame remixes off OCRemix or something. ;p Overall, nice stuff. :)

T-Free responds:

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! :]

Sweet.

I actually quite like this. I think it could use some bass when it gets into the full swing of things (0:58 or 1:26), just to give it some balls. :p Otherwise, it's pretty good. I think a vocal performance of either gender would work nicely overtop of this as well.

weemeee responds:

Hehe will do matey :) you've got a point. :>
Ty for the review :)

Nice.

Great production value in this track! Nice to see someone do a hip hop track on New Grounds that doesn't sound like generic fruity loop shit with lyrics recorded on a tiny computer mic. ;p Good work.

THEICONICICON responds:

why thank you glad you liked it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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